21.05.2014 - 01:25 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

State Censorship by Copyright? Spanish Firm Abuses DMCA to Silence Critics of Ecuador‘s Government

In December 2012, the same firm sent notices to YouTube and Vimeo to take down a documentary about President Correa. Ares Rights claimed that the film contained “unauthorized images” from the state-operated TV channel, ECTV. YouTube ultimately found the notice to be invalid and has since re-posted the video. The following December, oil company Chevron also faced a takedown of their YouTube videos—again, following a DMCA notice from Ares Rights—which accused the Ecuadorian government of corruption amidst ongoing litigation over rainforest pollution.